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Additional work lies ahead before base editing can realize its full potential to improve the lives of
patients
with genetic diseases.
Starting when they’re less than a year old,
patients
suffer from repeated episodes of stabbing pain in oxygen-starved tissues.
A blockage in the spleen, part of the immune system, puts
patients
at risk for dangerous infections.
This short lifespan means that
patients
live with a constantly depleted supply of red blood cells; a condition called sickle-cell anemia.
As these tools become available in the areas most affected by malaria and sickle cell disease, we can improve the quality of life for more
patients
with this adverse adaptation.
They've wired them like
patients
in an ICU.
But any two
patients
will have different-sized blood vessels in their fingers.
New drug prolongs lives of
patients
with rare disease.
In a sample of 2,000 patients, the ones who start taking the drug upon diagnosis live longer than those who take the placebo.
What’s one more thing you’d like to know before deciding if the headline, "New drug prolongs lives of
patients
with rare disease", is justified?
Before making this call, you’d want to know how much the drug prolonged the patients’ lives.
I became fluent in medicalese, made friends with a group of other young cancer patients, built a vast collection of neon wigs and learned to use my rolling IV pole as a skateboard.
In fact, when I get
patients
like this woman, I tend to advise not to operate.
A possible economic motivation to treat the
patients.
Well, five to ten percent of
patients
will have worsening of pain symptoms.
One to two percent of
patients
will have an infection in the wound or even a rehemorrhage that might end up in a re-operation.
0.5 percent of
patients
also experience permanent hoarseness and a few, but still a few, will experience reduced function in the arms or even legs.
We've done it for many
patients
now, and we can say that they're all independent infections.
As they infect more cells, the bacteria employ cell-degrading enzymes that destroy the infected tissue, triggering chest pain, and causing
patients
to cough up blood.
Patients
are then either monitored with more frequent pap smears, or, for more severe irregularities, undergo a procedure called a colposcopy.
The other was treating the
patients
with quinine, or quinine derivatives.
For this reason, they don't generally allow the doctors to make appointments for the
patients.
I wish I could say that this was an isolated incident, but I know from running the safety net systems in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and now New York City, that health care is built on a middle-class model that often doesn't meet the needs of low-income
patients.
One of the
patients
who came to my East Los Angeles clinic on a Thursday afternoon presented with partial blindness in both eyes.
Both
patients'
care was jeopardized by their delays in seeking care.
It also made me think about all of the
patients
who receive reams and reams of paper spit out by our modern electronic health record systems, explaining their diagnoses and their treatments, and wondering how many people actually can understand what's on those pieces of paper.
But still, my
patients
run out of minutes, and their phones get disconnected.
This is just a graphic example of the kinds of choices that low-income
patients
have to make every day.
I know I've painted a bleak picture of the care of low-income
patients.
But I want you to know how rewarding I find it to work in a safety net system, and my deep belief is that we can make the system responsive to the needs of low-income
patients.
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